Short Stories audiobooks

After the Funeral

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister, in this classic Agatha Christie mystery now available in an updated edition with a foreword Sophie Hannah. “He was murdered, wasn’t he?”When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she had made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral... Read more

Appointment with Death

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The unstoppable Hercule Poirot finds himself in the Middle East with only one day to solve a murder in the classic Agatha Christie mystery, Appointment with Death. Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection... Read more

At Bertram's Hotel

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Stephanie Cole

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

At Bertram’s Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events.An old-fashioned London hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out to be.…When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel:... Read more

Black Coffee

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: John Moffatt

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Claud Amory's formula for a powerful new explosive has been stolen, presumably by a member of his large household. Sir Claud assembles his suspects in the library and locks the door, instructing them that the when the lights go out, the formula must be replaced on the table -- and no questions will be asked. But when the lights come on, Sir... Read more

Cards on the Table

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, Cards on the Table, the wily Hercule Poirot is on the case when a bridge night turns deadlyMr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some... Read more

Cat Among the Pigeons

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder is part of the curriculum at an exclusive school for girls in Agatha Christie’s Cat Among the Pigeons, as the intrepid Poirot sets out to bring a stealthy killer to justice.Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they... Read more

Dead Man's Folly

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man’s Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie.Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith,... Read more

Dumb Witness

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise.Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more... Read more

Elephants Can Remember

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christie’s Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife.Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies—a... Read more

Evil Under the Sun

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic Evil Under the Sun, one of the most famous of Agatha Christie’s Poirot investigations, has the fastidious sleuth on the trail of the killer of a sun-bronzed beauty whose death brings some rather shocking secrets into the light.The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and... Read more

Hallowe'en Party

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, coming in 2023!In this authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, a Halloween Party turns deadly, and it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer.At a Halloween party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a... Read more

Lord Edgware Dies

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peer’s spiteful wife, didn’t do it, who did? A classic from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie.When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen... Read more

Murder in Mesopotamia

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Anna Massey

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie.Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a... Read more

Murder in the Mews

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Nigel Hawthorne

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie’s classic Murder in the Mews presents four mystifying criminal conundrums that will seriously test the superior detecting skills of the unflappable Hercule Poirot.How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top... Read more

Murder on the Orient Express

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE INCOMPARABLE AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!

“The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .”

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward... Read more

N or M?

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during the dark days of World War II, Agatha Christie’s N or M? puts two most unlikely espionage agents, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, on the trail of a pair of Nazi spies who have murdered Britain’s top agent.World War II is raging, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces a sinister threat from “the enemy... Read more

Parker Pyne Investigates

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie once again demonstrates her mastery of the short form mystery with Parker Pyne Investigates—short stories of crime and detection featuring Parker Pyne, certainly one of the most unconventional private investigators ever to pursue a hot lead.Mrs. Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she... Read more

Partners in Crime

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crime—or rather partners in crime solving—and must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over... Read more

Peril at End House

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls appears to be the target of a dedicated killer—and it’s up to Hercule Poirot to save her life.On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent “accidental brushes with... Read more

Poirot Investigates

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie.First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the “suicide” that was murder . . . the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat . . .a suspicious death in a... Read more

Postern of Fate

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Agatha Christie’s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of... Read more

Sad Cypress

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery Sad Cypress, a woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Hercule Poirot stands between her and the gallows.Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning:... Read more

Spider's Web

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic from the queen of mystery: Agatha Christie. Read more

Taken at the Flood

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic puzzler Taken at the Flood, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman.A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the... Read more